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Currently in a massive readathon of every single issue Impulse ever appeared in starting from the Flash vol. 2 and going in chronological order through time as accurately as possible… it’s a long ass list and I’m taking notes as I go but i recently got to the actual Impulse 1995 comic and have some notes that are getting long….

Impulse #23 - Oh boy it’s the Meloni plot!

“Was anyone hurt?” “Well you.” “So nobody.” AGH.

Bruhhh Max please! He's actually learned a lot, if you'd listen! But seriously Max is so concerned with the simple picture of getting Bart to be obedient when Bart is so clearly not used to being bossed around by anyone but himself. Like they mentioned earlier in this issue, Bart grew up parentless and alone in a fake world where he controlled everything. He didn't even know what flowers were supposed to feel like! And when he came out of it, he was told he was dying but had no emotion towards that statement because all he'd known was the video game he "grew" up in. No danger, no consequences and yeah that's awful but it's LITERALLY all he knew. Everything else outside of that is confusing and expecting Bart to understand what you're subtly trying to hint isn't going to work Max! Video games are straight forward, you have to express things clearly if you want him to understand.

I just don't get why its so easy for the people surrounding Bart to be clear about their complaints of his everything but when it comes to wanting to teach him something it's suddenly all riddles and "i expect you to understand what I'm saying even though I'm not saying it clearly." And now Max is having an old man silent tantrum and Bart feels bad but can't figure out why. Cleaning, doing the dishes, going to bed himself. The feeling that he did bad and upset Max so he's trying to compensate the best he can and “fix” it. And I get what Max is trying to teach... Bart has the instinct to run in front of gunmen and falling rocks because if he got hurt in his video game then it wouldn't matter and no one was around to SAY that it mattered. Thus the concept that it would MATTER, at least to Max, if he got hurt isn't clicking, but of course Max can't say that because communication is non existent so he throws a tantrum and makes Bart feel even worse! UGHH

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Whats an unfortunate belief you had about a character before their actual lore corrected you harder than an overly passionate college professor?

For a long time I believed that Meloni also had speed powers. Idk why, idk where that thought process even came from but I thought that Bart's body was sick and aging way too fast because he had double speedster meta genes which mutated wrongly thus prompting his VR childhood in the labs. I even have a document from years ago (created after I watched the young justice show and dabbled very little in the wiki <- explains my dumbass so much) that mentions some of my weird imaginations such as Meloni's speed ability was the scouts and Don's was the tornado, so Bart was able to develop them both later. I guess my thinking was coming from the fact that Melonis, father in law, husband and son all had speed powers so she must have it too... I'm so embarrassed it took me so long to find out that's not the case...

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I can't really blame the writers.. I also would rather hand wave and estimate rather than calculate those numbers, especially if I know I'm not writing that much for it. On the other hand though so many others have picked it up and dropped it over the years. Specifically the live actions and cartoons which i know we're talking comics here but I have to wonder if that's where most headcanons hail from... The live action/cartoons portraying speedsters as these goofy, gotta eat all the time comic reliefs because it appeals to kids more?

Anyway that was off topic! Thank you for responding to this post!

I think most likely Pica would be the thing that could happen but only to someone or other specific and it would be entirely based on the author and even then if they did I can't imagine it would be a huge plot or anything. It'd be one of those things that feels like something that should maybe be addressed but isn't because in the authors and most of the readers eyes why would it? It's something that happened for a brief page or two and that's it. We have a bigger story here to get through. In fact those "speedsters can eat anything" jokes are the source of this question in the first place! The prader willi syndrome... You're right it's genetic I didn't think to research it that much beyond the symptomatology, that was my fault.

These impossible beings are so interesting biologically but man their physics breaking and "can do anything in the realm of logic and BEYOND" is making my head hurt.

alright flash fans heres a morbid one for ya.

do you think that if a flash (any one) were put in a situation where they were starved or had little to no food and then were rescued or released after a long while,, do you think they would develop pica or prader willi syndrome because of their need to eat ten times as much and so often?

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alright flash fans heres a morbid one for ya.

do you think that if a flash (any one) were put in a situation where they were starved or had little to no food and then were rescued or released after a long while,, do you think they would develop pica or prader willi syndrome because of their need to eat ten times as much and so often?

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Agoraphobia is unhealthy and I've spent the last 2 years trying to overtake it in therapy and hush my anxiety to varying degrees of success.... but MAN is it starting to look good right about now

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Someone please show me in canon where Bart couldn't spell to save his life because as far as I remember this man could write in cursive barely a few hours after learning how to write and EVERYTIME I see someone RPing or making meme text posts or just genuinely trying (and failing) to pass as Bart on this app all make him spell as if he's never done so in his life. Literally like a toddler who can't type the keys properly or is speaking UWU language and I just- WHERE DID THIS COME FROM

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There are 12 days left to pre-order the Konbart Zine!

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you ever think superheroes who wear goggles ever have to do the goggle rinse like when we were kids in the pool? Like they get hit or something and those pain tears start leaking and then when it's all over they just have to-

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i love being born in october,, even though i don't celebrate my bday anymore its like getting an entire month of new content for my favorite fandoms like inktober, angstober, whumptober, flufftober, kinktober all at once and its quite possibly the best gift of them all AND

halloween!

fall!

cold weather returning!

i love october

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I know theres an archive or post somewhere on here that features the civilian outfits Bart wore in his comic runs,, can someone help me find it?

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How u one of the strongest in DC but loose to ADHD?

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I did it. I made the Bart “Keep Up” edit. Just doing my civic duty.

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1 year later... if you're here from instagram.. no you aren't shoo

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is your pen broken? do you have writers' block? we've got the solution for you.

try turning your brain off and on again.

the more extreme version of 1), restarting your brain.

put it in rice

stop looking for your answers on tumblr go write go go

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The Atelier Couture | Paradise Collection

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ITS SO BEAUTIFUL EVERYTIME I LOOK AT IT I-

geraskier commission for @riaisnthere featuring their fae jaskier 🌱

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(photo ID: a screenshot of a post by killrockstar that says "get more out of life. read a fucked up book.")

by popular demand (aka @biconachilles asked) my rec list of fucked up books (that will fuck you up)

the sparrow - mary doria russell (this is for the people who haven’t read this one yet. i know most of my friends now have but listen. LISTEN.) it details the first contact between earth and an alien race, and the narrative ping pongs between 2016, where a group led by jesuit priest and linguist emilio sandoz detects the first signs of alien life and begins the journey to the distant planet, and 2060, where emilio is back on earth, the only survivor left of the expedition, mind and body traumatized and brutalized

vanished birds - simon jimenez. a mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman who runs a ship that travels through space and time–meaning while she runs through the stars, the people she knows age and move past her. this child, placed in her care, has the potential to change the world, and she finds herself desperate to protect him from those who would do him harm. i also recommend his second book, the spear cuts through the water, for an equally devastating fantasy read.

cantoras - carolina de robertis. this book follows five “cantoras” (uruguayan slang for queer women) throughout each of their lives during the uruguayan dictatorship, their personal journeys into what it means to love other women, and what it means to find haven in friendship with other women like you.

against the loveless world - susan abulhawa. a beautiful book that centers a palestinian refugee who grew up in jordan. she tells us her story from a solitary confinement cell in israel and we follow her as she goes from life as a refugee in kuwait and jordan before she finally makes her way back to palestine, where she discovers politics are deeply intertwined with love and she risks everything to return her family back to their native land

kartography - kamila shamsie. raheen and her best friend, karim, share an idyllic childhood in upper-class karachi. their parents were even once engaged to each others' partners until they rematched in what they call "the fiancée swap." but as adolescence distances the friends, karim takes refuge in maps while raheen searches for the secret behind her parents' exchange. what she uncovers reveals not just a family's but a country's turbulent history-and a grown-up raheen and karim are caught between strained friendship and fated love.

betty - tiffany mcdaniel. it centers the eponymous betty, and is basically a both brutal and just devastatingly beautiful coming of age story of a girl who is half white, half cherokee, and she takes completely after her dad in a way her siblings dont

starless sea - erin morgenstern. a book about books! a book about stories and libraries and a boy who falls into the lush, imaginative world of stories within stories, and who falls in love with a beautiful, broody storyteller.

the swimmers - julie otsuka. the first half is told in first person plural (”we” voice) and centers a group of people who all frequent the same swimming pool–until a crack is found at the bottom and sends everyone into a spiral. the second half of the book follows one particular swimmer, alice, as she begins to lose her memories to dementia

the southern reach trilogy - jeff vandermeer. a feverish set of books that follow the ongoings around "area x," a place where strange nature is slowly encroaching on the regular world and changing the people and places it takes over. i loved all of them, though many people's favorite is the first one. but i think they work best being read all at once.

hollow - brian catling. it follows three different people set in fantasy middle ages, possibly europe–one: a group of mercenaries hired to transport the new oracle to the main monastery nestled in a mountain rumored to have once been the tower of babel, two: a young monk without a voice who goes on a pilgrimage to see paintings he believes will reveal the future of the empire, and three: a peasant witch woman who is desperate to free her jailed son and makes a group of unlikely friends in the process

the people in the trees - hanya yanagihara. listen, yes, miss yanagihara is controversial for good reason but i havent stopped thinking about this book since i read it. i saw someone call it a post-colonial lolita and that's exactly how i feel.  it follows dr. norton, a scientist who discovers what is known as selene syndrome (a condition that affects the local populace where the people live nearly immortally but their minds do not) on a fictional micronesian island that has been untouched by the western world. and while that IS the general plot, it is told from dr. norton’s pov, and we know at the beginning of the book that he has been accused of child rape by one of the many micronesian children he’s adopted from the island

the houseguest and other stories - amparo davila. a book of creepy short stories that say "hey wouldnt it be fucked up if a weird little creature just showed up in your life and wouldn't leave? that would be really fucked up right?"

fever dream - samanta schweblin. a woman named amanda lays dying in a rural hospital clinic. a boy named david sits beside her. he is not her child, but together, they weave a strange story about ghosts and toxins, and dying children. short and nightmarish

the space between worlds - micaiah johnson. a sci-fi multiverse novel about a woman who is the most prolific world jumper bc her parallel selves seem to constantly die, but even then she can't outrun her past

i could've made this even longer! but this is where i end this. enjoy yourself! read a fucked up book!